Process Engineering Manager, RMTO Process Engineering

Amazon Inc.; Town of Westboro (WI); On-site; USD 151,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

Paid Time Off

401(k) Plan

Parental Leave Options

Job summary

Amazon Robotics is seeking an experienced engineering leader in Massachusetts to guide a team focused on hardware development and NPIs. You will balance hands-on technical judgment with people leadership, setting visions and roadmaps while mentoring engineers to own their systems end-to-end.

You’ll drive cost, quality, and safety improvements, participate in planning, and travel up to 10% to support cross-functional projects across sites, collaborating with product, manufacturing, and software

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
• 7+ years of new hardware products development experience
• 7+ years of engineering team management experience
• Experience in engineering team management
• Experience in new hardware product development
• Experience in DFx (cost, test, manufacturing)
• Experience with the project management of technical projects

Responsibilities

• Actively support and foster a culture of inclusion.
• Coach and mentor a team that owns process development and optimization for new products.
• Set your team’s vision, tenets, and roadmap; participate in Amazon’s planning process.
• Implement technology and tool improvements that impact Safety, Quality, and Cost targets.
• Perform critical process reviews, including Risk and Hazard assessments.
• Lead the development and validation of processes specific to NPI (New Product Introduction) programs.
• Write business and operational planning documents for capital equipment and plant infrastructure.
• Coordinate cross-functional development work across teams and all levels of the organization, delegating to TPMs or senior engineers as appropriate.
• Define audit mechanisms and metrics that explain team performance and variance against goals.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks before they become roadblocks; elevate with sound judgment.
• Be strategic about senior engineer growth, providing stretch opportunities that demonstrate higher-level scope, impact, and leadership.
• Ability to travel (~10%) to support projects.

Skills

Hardware product development

Engineering team leadership

DFx (cost, test, manufacturing)

Project management

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Project management tools

Job description

Description

Amazon Robotics is located in the greater Boston area, the epicenter of robotics innovation. Our diverse team of engineers come from all over the world to design, test, and build our dynamic fleet of robots and mechatronic systems. Having our offices, labs, test floors, and factories all co-located means that we can design the hardware, write the code, test, build, and watch it all come to life. This allows us to innovate quickly and on limitless ideas. Current advancements are underway in autonomous movement and mobility, artificial intelligence and machine learning, manipulation, simulation, robotic management software, predictive analytics, and much more.

Amazon Robotics is located in the greater Boston area, the epicenter of robotics innovation. Our diverse team of engineers come from all over the world to design, test, and build our dynamic fleet of robots and mechatronic systems. Having our offices, labs, test floors, and factories all co-located means that we can design the hardware, write the code, test, build, and watch it all come to life. This allows us to innovate quickly and on limitless ideas. Current advancements are underway in autonomous movement and mobility, artificial intelligence and machine learning, manipulation, simulation, robotic management software, predictive analytics, and much more. The Amazon Robotics (AR) Robotics Manufacturing and Technical Operations (RMTO) organization manufactures high-quality robotics and gets the right materials to the right place at the right time to enable our automated solutions.

Key job responsibilities

• Actively support and foster a culture of inclusion.
• Coach and mentor a team that owns process development and optimization for new products.
• Set your team’s vision, tenets, and roadmap; participate in Amazon’s planning process.
• Implement technology and tool improvements that impact Safety, Quality, and Cost targets.
• Perform critical process reviews, including Risk and Hazard assessments.
• Lead the development and validation of processes specific to NPI (New Product Introduction) programs.
• Write business and operational planning documents for capital equipment and plant infrastructure.
• Coordinate cross-functional development work across teams and all levels of the organization, delegating to TPMs or senior engineers as appropriate.
• Define audit mechanisms and metrics that explain team performance and variance against goals.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks before they become roadblocks; elevate with sound judgment.
• Be strategic about senior engineer growth, providing stretch opportunities that demonstrate higher-level scope, impact, and leadership.
• Ability to travel (~10%) to support projects.

A day in the life

You will balance hands-on technical judgment with team leadership, questioning proposals and assumptions when you are involved while empowering your engineers to own their systems end-to-end. You will drive mindful discussions that lead to clear decisions, structure projects to reduce exposure to classic failure modes (unclear requirements, ineffective collaboration, insufficient testing), and recommend reviews with Senior/Principal Engineers when solutions risk adding complexity or impairing future innovation. When views diverge, you will find the best path forward and build consensus around it.

Benefits

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• Maternity and Parental Leave Options
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k) Plan

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Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, MA, Westboro - 151,000.00 - 204,300.00 USD annually

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
• 7+ years of new hardware products development experience
• 7+ years of engineering team management experience
• Experience in engineering team management
• Experience in new hardware product development
• Experience in DFx (cost, test, manufacturing)
• Experience with the project management of technical projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Power Engineering, or a related field
• Experience developing products for large volume production
• Experience managing teams of 8+ engineers

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A10585225